Why, is it now illegal to have your hands in your pockets?
sickening police violence
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Why, is it now illegal to have your hands in your pockets?
Watch the video again, he doesn't even move after being 'hit' by the baton.
It's the push that moved him.
Not illegal, it's a request, and if you fail to comply, they can react to it by means of you not willing to comply with an officer.
If they think it is a threat to them, they can ask.
Yes, he shouldn't have even been there.
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From the initial push from the dog-handler police officer it's more likely they were just trying to move him along.
The cops didn't need to do anything. He wasn't obstructing then; he was simply walking in front of them, as he was perfectly entitled to do. They were spread out behind him, and could easily have walked past him if they'd wanted to, but they chose not to do this. Instead, one of them attacked him with a baton and hurled him to the ground for no legitimate reason whatsoever.
It's a frightening picture of Britain's thuggish police force at their most unprofessional. Are these little bully boys answerable to anyone? What is the government doing about this?
It's a frightening picture of Britain's thuggish police force at their most unprofessional. Are these little bully boys answerable to anyone? What is the government doing about this?
...and why not exactly? Isn't this still a free Country for the time being?
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Makes sense if the police are clearing a road to walk pass poeple.
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Watch it again - the slow motion bit at about 2 minutes in - his knees give after the baton and then he falls from the push. Quite tricky to keep your footing after you've been hit in the back of the knees...
Yeah, lets converge en mass to a protest just to antagonise the police
. It is a free country but you seem unwilling to recognise this guys lack of common sense.
None the less, it's manslaughter.
Yeah, lets converge en mass to a protest just to antagonise the police
You seem to be missing the fact that he wasn't there to protest or antagonise the police.
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I said he was taking the pee, I never mentioned talking
I'm not entirely sure that he was hit (I'd expect him to react if he had been) but even if he was, how is this relevant - and more importantly, how does this justify their actions?
Excuse me? They weren't "clearing a road"; it wasn't even a road. It was a public thoroughfare, and the police were completely unobstructed. Hell, they were spread out in a line behind him; there was no need to move him on, let alone attack him.
When I first heard the reports of this incident, I supported the police entirely because I assumed that early reports had been exaggerated. Now that I've seen the video, I can't support them on any grounds whatsoever.
The cowardly little jackbooted thug who attacked him should be charged with manslaughter.
I have witnessed Police brutality when a callow youth, before I saw this I naievely thought that humans could be trusted with power, sure most are ok but I'm afraid some will behave like this animal.We do need Police but if they do stuff like this then they need to be punished, manslaughter imho.
It is spectacularly breathtaking that some on here are blaming the guy, good god you guys really are unhinged, just hope that you dont yourself become a victim of something like this.
It is spectacularly breathtaking that some on here are blaming the guy, good god you guys really are unhinged, just hope that you dont yourself become a victim of something like this.
There are several conflicting stories about what he was actually doing there from several different news outlets.
As someone else has already mentioned, why would you walk home via a protest? The situation in the area would be tense enough as it is. People generally try to avoid the troublesome route.
I can't see any link between him dying and the push. It's little more than coincidence.
I'm not going to stick up for him either. If he had a problem that DID cause him to walk slowly in front of police with police dogs then he could have turned around and actually said something, but he didn't. He was simply trying to annoy the police, and trying to provoke a reaction.
Think about it, if you are walking in front of a line of police with dogs, clearing an area in order to get people out of the way, standing in front of them is a stupid idea, and most people out of common sense wouldn't do it. Calling the police force thuggish is all well and good but if you were a policeman i'm pretty sure you'd see it differently. That bloke was little more than another arrogant ******* trying to cause trouble.
I'm not going to stick up for him either. If he had a problem that DID cause him to walk slowly in front of police with police dogs then he could have turned around and actually said something, but he didn't. He was simply trying to annoy the police, and trying to provoke a reaction.
Think about it, if you are walking in front of a line of police with dogs, clearing an area in order to get people out of the way, standing in front of them is a stupid idea, and most people out of common sense wouldn't do it. Calling the police force thuggish is all well and good but if you were a policeman i'm pretty sure you'd see it differently. That bloke was little more than another arrogant ******* trying to cause trouble.